In progress

Real and drawn plants, being turned into a pattern for printing on fabric...

My creative space

 In my creative space today I've got some kowhai leaf drawings that are ideas for part of a fabric design I want to make.  The other parts of the design I've been practising are here.  I was reading in a craft book today about photocopying fruit and using the photocopies to embellish your dinner plates - it made me laugh but I think I've done a version of that here scanning the original kowhai leaf alongside the drawn ones!

I also just learnt how to do a repeat pattern in photoshop - here's one I've been playing around with.  It's my "dots on sticks" pattern I made up a while ago but repeating properly this time.  The green needs a bit of tweaking I think - I'm always searching for the perfect green fabric.  One day I'm hoping to get some fabric a bit like this printed by Spoonflower. 

How about you, what have you been making?

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Happy Thursday!

Glass half full

I had a bit of a gocco disaster the other day. As I was exposing an image onto a screen, a gust of wind blew the paper out of place and only about half of the image got exposed onto the screen. I kind of managed to salvage it by printing part of the image and using it to make patches. So now these kowhai seedpod patches will be coming with me to the Auckland Art & Craft fair. They're printed on denim and reinforced with interfacing on the backs.